public convenience
Example Sentences
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"The view is the only reason I bought it," said developer Simon Ayres, who bought the public convenience from Cornwall Council for £169,000 in March.
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2024
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission had allowed the company’s project to move forward in 2018 by granting PennEast a so-called certificate of public convenience and necessity, but lawsuits followed.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 29, 2021
There is a cult film by the Chinese director Fruit Chan called Public Toilet, about two guys who, without sexual overtones, just liked hanging out at a public convenience.
From The Guardian ● May 3, 2017
The board decided that the pipeline met the requirements of Iowa law requiring it to “promote the public convenience and necessity.”
From Washington Times ● Mar. 10, 2016
“Scientific, sensible and sane city-planning” says an authority “with utility and public convenience as its primary consideration produces beauty—the beauty that is the result of adapting successfully a thing to its purpose.”
From Catastrophe and Social Change Based Upon a Sociological Study of the Halifax Disaster by Samuel Henry Prince
